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MotionTribe UK launch, debut at BVE Expo 2018

Posted: 26/02/2018

MotionTribe expands its online rental platform to the UK, allowing film and television equipment owners to generate income by renting to other creative professionals. Company co-founder, Haroun Souirji, explains, “We are super excited to be at BVE 2018 to announce we can provide our services to production professionals based in, or near, London, and help people rent their gear safely, with fully comprehensive insurance tailored for audiovisual professionals. We are hoping we can attract 4.000 London users in the next 2 years.”

Blackmagic Design today announced that writer and director Hasraf ‘HaZ’ Dulull, has completed his first feature-length film, ‘The Beyond’, which was edited and graded in DaVinci Resolve 14. Furthermore, the sci-fi documentary film was shot exclusively with digital film cameras from Blackmagic Design, including the URSA Mini 4.6K and URSA Mini Pro.

LynTec, a leading manufacturer of innovative electrical power control solutions for professional audio, video, and lighting systems, announced that NPAC, the company's ready-to-install, rackmount power management solution, was recognized with a 2017 Most Innovative Product Award by Sound & Video Contractor Magazine (S&VC).

Book of Shadows is a new fantasy short written, directed by and starring former Royal Marines commando and professional stuntman Adam Collins. Think witchcraft, dragons, vikings, fire and plenty of fight scenes.

DaVinci Resolve Studio used to Manage DI Workflow for Murder on the Orient Express

Posted: 11/12/2017

Blackmagic Design today announced that its DaVinci Resolve Studio was used to manage the color pipeline, including onset dailies and final grade, on Kenneth Branaghs adaptation of Agatha Christies classic, Murder on the Orient Express.

URSA Mini 4.6K and DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel Used for Documentary Film Obusebito

Posted: 04/12/2017

Blackmagic Design announced today that its URSA Mini 4.6K was used for shooting 'Obusebito', a documentary short film about the people of a small town, Obuse, Nagano. The film was graded with DaVinci Resolve Studio using a DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel.

URSA Mini 4.6K Used in the Production of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Posted: 24/11/2017

Blackmagic Design has today announced that its URSA Mini 4.6K digital film camera was amongst the camera packages used in the filming of Academy Award winning director Martin McDonagh's latest film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

After a successful launch of the next generation CineAlta motion picture camera VENICE, and extensive conversations with filmmakers following the cameras debut, Sony is responding to strong requests to implement Full Frame image capture from day one, in time for the shipping of VENICE in February 2018.

Blackmagic Design today announced that DaVinci Resolve and DaVinci Resolve Micro Panels were used to edit and color West Saharats directorial debut film, Bug KookJe Go Inter. The full-length film was also shot with an URSA Mini 4K camera, a Blackmagic Production Camera 4K and a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera.

For the founder of London-based Hangman, James Tonkin, this has indeed been a summer to remember. After sixteen years of working in the same suites, he designed and moved his team into a new future proofed facility in Kew Gardens created specifically for the manipulation and delivery of formats in up to 8K HDR.

On the 1st January 2018, I officially took on the post of SMPTE Standards Vice President. The role has responsibility for all of SMPTE’s standardisation activities and it fills me with equal measures of excitement and terror.

The setting was Celebro Studios London, home to their fully 4k television studios, where journalists and industry commentators gathered late last November to witness the launch of the revolutionary Rotolight Anova PRO 2. This was no ordinary unveiling though, the launch was streamed live on Facebook and YouTube and hosted by award winning news anchor man Martin Stanford with Wesley Dodd, CEO of Celebro Media Group and Rotolight MD Rod Gammons in the studio.

Founded in January 2014, EpicTech Media have been providing high end video production to companies and musicians across the U.K. for over three and a half years. When approached earlier this year by the band Bodkin Lane, we relished the challenge of producing a video of their charity concert, in aid of Headway (www.headway.org.uk), despite the challenging size of the venue.

If you asked me the question ‘where do you see yourself after you graduate’ three years ago I would have probably answered ‘in a lot of debt, but if you don't think about it, it doesn't exist because three years is a long time right ?’. WRONG! These three years studying Television and Broadcasting at the University of Portsmouth have been the quickest three years of my life. Back when I started I didn't really have any idea what I wanted to specialise in and the dreaded four letter word AVID used to be my biggest enemy. However I persevered through the 3792871 hours of lectures learning how to use the software, how it functions, neither did I think I'd be a one woman match of the day by graduation'.

My journey as a filmmaker began with a select number of enthusiastic BBC reporters picked out and trained in the concept of Personal Digital Production by the American Video Journalist Michael Rosenblum.

Some people have been, understandably, getting fairly excited over the prospect of being able to deploy wireless cameras to capture and transmit 4K UHD. Manufacturers and developers are closing in on the ability to deliver systems that will offer up almost endless creative options at the highest – to date – possible picture quality.

Filmmaker, director and editor, Leonardo Dalessandri first came to fame with his stunning video ‘Watchtower of Turkey,’ which with more than 200 million views, garnered the accolade of Best Vimeo Video in 2014. His vibrant images are combined with a unique editing style, incorporating slow motion, hyper lapses and invisible match cuts to produce genuinely breathtaking final results.

There are many reviews about this camera online and a heap of incredibly detailed comparison and behind the scenes footage that will really give you a full insight into what it can do. So first a disclaimer - this review is less detailed and based on my personal reading of what this camera means for Canon and all other camera manufacturers and us – the users of these technologies. So, what’s all the fuss about?

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